The Secretary of State has considered carefully all the representations before him. On the basis of the submissions received, he is of the view that there are no substantive issues which require the Inquiry to be re-opened and he has therefore decided that he is in a position to re-determine the appeal on the basis [...]
Entries Tagged as 'STRiFE'
High noon for Park Street – official
February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Tags:Colnbrook·freight terminal·Helioslough·Park Street·Radlett·St Albans·St Albans Civic Society·STRiFE
A re-opening of the previous public inquiry still makes the most sense if we want to stop the Helioslough lorry terminal
November 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Along with other witnesses to the previous freight terminal inquiry, David Parry and I were invited to comment on the latest submissions from Helioslough arguing that the Park Street freight terminal should go ahead. St Albans District Council also submitted a critique which is an excellent piece of work and STRiFE offered their own arguments [...]
Tags:David Parry·freight terminal·Helioslough·M25 widening·Park Street·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·STRiFE
Railfreight victory by the skin of our teeth
July 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog
Thank goodness for common sense government. Today’s announcement that the Secretary of State has over-ruled the planning inspector and rejected Helioslough’s second appeal against refusal of the lorry terminal at Park Street is thoroughly good news.
It is the proper reward for years of hard campaigning.
Had this awful development gone ahead, it would have irrevocably destroyed [...]
Tags:Helioslough·Herts County Council·Herts Highways·Park Street·Radlett freight terminal·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·STRiFE·Tesco
Helioslough rightly under pressure as public has their say at the Inquiry
December 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog
Today was the first opportunity for members of the public to give evidence as witnesses at the Railfreight public inquiry. It was a good morning. Anne Main spoke first and concentrated on rail issues and particularly the disgraceful failure of Network Rail to provide a witness to the Inquiry who could be questioned and cross-examined [...]
Tags:Hands off Herts·Helioslough·Park Street·Radlett freight terminal·railfreight·railfreight public inquiry·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·St Albans Civic Society·STRiFE
As new railfreight inquiry begins, have we uncovered a fundamental flaw in Helioslough’s traffic modelling?
November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog, Uncategorized
Today was the first day in the new Public Inquiry into developer Helioslough’s appeal against St Albans District Council’s refusal of their application to build a massive freight terminal with a few railway sidings attached in the crucial Green Belt south of the city.
I joined the demonstration organised by STRiFE beforehand and then we all [...]
Tags:Helioslough·Park Street·Radlett·railfreight·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·STRiFE
St Albans versus Helioslough – Round Three
May 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Now it has been confirmed that St Albans District Council will consider the new application from Helioslough, we will have to dust off the “Hands Off Herts” logo.
I cannot over-emphasise the destructiveness of the Helioslough proposal. There is no meaningful change in their new proposal. The monster freight terminal they propose would be a [...]
St Albans and the Helioslough dragon
April 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog
As we always knew they would, Helioslough are back with a repeated application to build their monster freight terminal.
It’s a kick in the teeth for local people. St Albans Council still needs to see the detail of the application to check that it fits the rules. If it really is unchanged from the previous application [...]
Tags:Helioslough·Park Street·STRiFE
There is an alternative railfreight site
April 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog
The key foundation of Helioslough’s resubmitted application to build the giant freight terminal at Park Street is their allegation that there is no alternative site for a so-called strategic freight terminal in this quadrant of London. We have to prove them wrong.
That is why local LibDem peer Tom McNally and I went with STRiFE [...]